The Howard H. Baker, Jr. Center for Public Policy focuses on three main areas of interest. The Center maintains and promotes research in the papers of Howard H. Baker, Jr. and other political collections at the University of Tennessee. These materials provide a wealth of information for scholars and students. The Center will work to [...]
The Center for Business and Economic Research (CBER) was established in 1937 as an auxiliary of the College of Business Administration at the University of Tennessee. The mission of CBER is to produce and disseminate new information in the general area of economic research, and in the specific areas of economic development, regional economics and [...]
Faculty Brian Barber, Child and Family Studies – Brian K. Barber, PhD is the founding director of the Center for the Study of Youth and Political Conflict, professor of child and family studies, and adjunct professor of psychology, all at the University of Tennessee (USA). He is also Technical Advisor to the World Health Organization and [...]
The Correspondence of James K. Polk project devotes itself to publishing the letters of the Tennessee native who served as the United States’ eleventh president from 1845 to 1849. The faculty members on this project select, transcribe, edit, and annotate these letters. The most important or interesting letters, they publish in full; the rest, they [...]
The interdisciplinary Critical Theory Research Group brings together a group of faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences. Our research relies on contributions from critical theory, broadly understood. As a distinct research tradition, critical theory began during the 1930s in Germany and in the United [...]
The Papers of Andrew Jackson is a project housed in the Department of History, the goal of which is to collect and publish, in a chronological series of volumes, a comprehensive and definitive edition of President Andrew Jackson’s public and private correspondence and other papers. Through a worldwide, multi-decade search, the project has acquired photocopies [...]
The Political Economy of Globalization (PEG) Research Group brings together a group of faculty in the Department of Sociology whose research focuses on questions of global inequality, social movements, democracy, and social justice. This group of faculty brings together expertise on different regions of the world, including the United States. Faculty Members / Areas of [...]
Political Science is an academic department consisting of twenty tenure-line faculty members. Achievements / Distinctions Several of our faculty members, including Professors Anthony Nownes, Michael Fitzgerald, and John Scheb, have been recognized through campus awards for teaching. Professor Robert Cunningham serves on numerous editorial boards, including Administrative Theory and Praxis, Review of Public Personnel Administration, [...]
